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THE PASSAGE IN THE
ARCTIC OCEAN. »
(To the Editor, "China Mail.") Sir-Kindly allow me to use some of your valuable space in your es- teemed paper with desire to clear the question about the "passage found in Arctic Ocean" which was published in your issue of 13th. October, 1932. ̧..
It was said "For the Srst time in history this feat of navigation has been accomplished."
May I point out the following: At the beginning of Spring 1913,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1932.
CONFUCIUS' MIGHTY
VOICE RESOUNDS
TEACHINGS STILL ECHO THROUGHOUT CHINA
TTE
SOME
OF HIS WISDOM
(By A LOCAL PADRE)
W come to-day in this the settled down in his native province second of the short series of and there at the age of 72 he died.
He died a disappointed man. In his .... articles on comparative religions, last years he meditated: "The to Confucius, the man who above all strong beam must break! The two sisters ships, built specially in others, has left an indelible mark wise man must, wither away" like a ' Fetrograd for navigating in the upon the character of the Chinese plant! There is not one man in the Arctic Ocean under the names
empire who will make me his mas ter."
of people.
of
fund money and the officers were re-
11
Taimyr" and "Walgatch," left the
His real name was Kung Fu Tze, Vladivostok Harbour. They were
There was religion in China be manned by the officers and scamen but this combination of Syllables fore his day, but he took little ac- from the Russian Imperial Navy being too difficult for European ton-count of it. In some parts of his teaching he implies a belief in and were under the command
gues it has been Latinized into the deity, but other of his teachings Captain B. Velkitsky R.I.N
These boats were in second special form with which we are familiar. seem almost to deny the superna expedition by way of the North He was born in Shantung in 551 tural. He discouraged prayer, and Arctic Ocean to Archangel and B. C, and died there in 478, Hadid not enjoin any sort of religious Kronstadt."
grave being one of the sacred observance. He was always modest regarding his own character and This expedition was intended for shrines of China.
attainments, acknowledging four discoveries, mapping, surveys, etc.,
What we know about him is con-shortcomings like Buddha, one of without special time-limits.
During this voyage Captain B. tained in twenty small books call-which was too much fondness for Velkitský discovered new spaces of ed the "Analects," "which record wine.
If he fall short of his own ideal, land one of which was named "the conversations with his disciples, he had four great points of land of Emperor Nicolas II.
and other descriptive, and biogra strength. He had no foregone con- This expedition was carried to
clusions, no arbitrary premeditar the end in June 1914, just after the phical information.
His father, a military officer, was tions, no obstinacy, no egotism. He declaration of War, and "both of
70 years old when this child was taught the characteristics of the these ships "Taimyr" and "Wal-
born. Of his ton children, Con- superior man, who is never parti- gatch" reached Archangel where |
fucius was the only able bodied one, zan, does only the right, is not an- they were received with triumph.
His birth (as, embellished by later xious in the fear of poverty, but The reception was not so pompous admirers,} was accompanied by lest he fail to learn the truth." as it was expected as War condi-divine portents. He appears to He taught the brotherhood of readers who are still shocked at tions did not allow to spend time have been reared in poverty, and to mankind. Within the four seas all George Eliot and readers who laquired on the battle front.
have been self-educated. We are men are brothers. He taught the ment the Edwardian prudery of During this trip to Archangel in told that he played at the arrange silver rule, which is negative, as Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 17, 1932. Mr. Aldous Huxley, "Can you the Arctic Ocean they lost some of ment of vessels and at postures of contrasted with the Golden Rule of ceremony, which seemed to show an Christ, saying." What you would Amongst
innate love of ritual. He was an not have another do to you, do not. tell me of "a good book? There their officers and men.
them I can now mention the fame earnest student of history. At the do to him," but it is a noble pre- can be only one answer: "Tell
of Lieutenant Alexis Johoe R.IN.
age of 15 "he bent his mind to cept none the less. He taught the me first what sort of a mind you my school mate ad good friend. have got to read with." In prac
All the works of this expedition: learning," and at 19 he was mar- value of the family, and human na ried. It does not appear to have ture's unrealized capacities for tice, therefore, the safest and descriptions, charts. collections, been a very successful venture, for self-improvement. But his interest No question in the world
meteorological and zoological ob-
tradition tells us that he later di was in fitting men for better citizen- most probably useful thing to do servations etc. etc., were left in vorced his wife, and we know for ship, not in founding of a faith. your not even" "Does
motor.
is that done in the "Book List charge of Admiralty and Scientific certain that he reproved his son in AGE-OLD INFLUENCE. wash?" or "Have you given up
for the Holidays." These are the Academy in Petrograd, until the beating your wife?" is quite!
books, something less than one termination of War to be printed later years for mourning her death. It would have amazed him to be The relations between Confucius told that one day millions would straight
and "published In special books.
and his son were not very intimate, render him worship. Yet twice a hundred in number, which, in Meanwhile. in periodical Issues of for he always maintained a distant year in 1,560 temples sacrifices me of a
one or other of eight categories, Russian Imperial Navy Magazines reserve towards him: It is some-have been made to him for moro That, it may be objected, is just what are attracting most attention at which were printed by Admiralty what difficult to reconcile this fact than a millenium. Less elaborate under the supervision of Naval Gen with his own theory of parental beceremonies take place twice # the moment. The regular read-eral Staff in Petrograd in 1915, haviour. For be held that if a son month, and no less than 62,000 ani- the professional critics are doing
ers of modern literature will were published the extracts of all did not honour his father, he was mals are slaughtered anunally in all day; but even the most "im-
treat the list as lovers of poetry discoveries during this expedition, probably as much to blame us the his honour. pressionistic" of them. those
"China has produced no other who take the least trouble to ex-note first of the items which
treat anthologies; they will take description of voyage, some of the
sharts and maps.
figure who has been so intensely 10- plain why they think this book
This was done in 1915 or seven- they think ought to have been teen years ago."
He held a similar view with re-mired. The result of centuries of what that book
most
included and have not been. Of
It is too easy, having all records, gard to the State Human nature he devotion to him is that the charac- -that well as nautical and meteorological State did not produce good citizens, nearly the creation of this
it only reaped the harvest of its great scholar than is the case with observations to follow the way of
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HUMANS ARE GOOD.
new books seem to be, master-those who are not regular read- informations, maps and charts as daid, was inherently good. If the ter of the people has been more
pieces, epoch-making, unrivalled,
ers of modern literature
extraordinary, brilliant, bristling is to say, of the great majority, the men, some whom have lost their own sewing. Let the government
are addressing to whom one of the charms of alives for. the Glory of the Flag of be good and the people will be good, try in the history of the world."
and so forth the public in general and not a holiday is
the chance that it their Natton discovering the clear particular person. A jest's pros brings of more reading than is way to Baltic Sea, via Northern perity lies in the ear of him
I was myscif Arctic Ocean. that hears it and the goodness there are who, having glanced at when they left Vladivostok saying board of these two boats the day
possible in work-times
some
on
he obtained a small post in the
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So wrote a modern scholar, but About the time of his marriage the gentle old philosopher himself government, first as keeper of stores He walked humbly, bemoaning the never dreamed of such immortality. of grain, and later as guardian of public fields and lands. At the age fact that no one would listen, and
of a book, in the sense intended the titles of the article, will in-"Good Bye" and "Good Luck" to of 22 he was released from official regarded his life as a failure. Ho
"
two boats in
cher.
the Harbour of
This "new rediscovery" (already
age.
by some
i
Confucius was devoted to the
Delightful Music From
Wagner's Works.
in the question, lies in the mind
stantly look away.
The photo of these responsibility, and became a teaded a worn out and discouraged man-Reprinted from the Sunday It is not my friends. of him that reads it quite as necessarily that they have any Vladivostok, in 1913, before their to him, no matter how small the
Herald. He received all pupils who came much as, in the book itself. Some dislike for the "successes of the departure, pre in my hands now. people want books in order to year" or for new literature in
tuition price they were able PENINSULA CONCERT
PLEASES GUESTS. read them; but others want them general;" but they have been long-made eighteen years ago but not bring, but he had little time for ito jot down their accounts in, or ing for the holiday to come part. Published to the world) is now ad-those who were not in earnest. Ha taught a well rounded curriculum, to make spills out of, or to use in ly because they know so well vertised everywhere, making the his three principal subject being some such ways as Samuel what they are going to read. It were connected
people laugh who
way history, poetry and literature. After with this dis these came proprieties, government, Butler used Frost's "Lives of is the Aeneid, perhaps, or some covery in 1914, it i too natural science, and music, Eminent Christians" in the Bri- Shakespeare comedies, or "The childish to suppose that nobody tish Museum. There are readers Prelude" and "The Excursion is still alive who may know the founders of the Chow dynasty, but Despite other week end attrac so voracious that they can swal-or a few of the Waverleys old "True Discoverers of this pass he had no time for Lao Tze the tions, the Peninsula Hotel concert founder of Taoism, whom he visit-orchestra" played before a large low the thirty and odd fat friends, which can be read anew,
It is also quite clear that only fewed on the same journey to the royal crowd in the Lounge Room last volumes of Ruskin in a week, quietly, affectionately, in the people know about these "True Dis- capital, and who advised him to night. and for anything like a long quest not first of stimulus but of coverers" as the attention of all cease meddling with things which Four of last night's selections holiday would want the entire soothing, of that propping of the nations was drawn to the Great War were beyond his control. He would were particularly outstanding:
and not other questions.
not take the advice of this 'older Selection from "New Moon" by compilations of Larousse and the mind of which Matthew Arnold
This point is strictly followed and man, so they parted and the two Romberg.
"Valse Triste" by Abbe Nigne, and the great and wrote in a famous sonnet. And kept in mind by the authors of the systems grew side by side, Sibelius" and "Fantasie" from the [beautiful "Enciclopedia Italiana,” | others there are who will "New Discovery." In other words It was part of the method of Con- Opera "Tannhauser" by Wagner,
which has published twelve huge scan. the list eagerly
in to gather fruits and Glory of other fucius not to answer back. "Many which included the famed "Pil- volumes and got as far as Dir, the hope of catching up with people's work is the highway rob- words," he said invite many de grima Chorus" and the equally
bery the way always followed by feats. Avoid entering many busi-famous March. and the complete works of Nat modern literature and of keeping the Moscow rullers in any fetitiousnesses, for they only create, many Gould and Edgar Wallace; and touch with the latest manifesta- discovery or
scientific research. difficulties." there are readers who find a single tions of normal thought; minda Many things have been invented and ALWAYS INDEPENDENT. ode of Horace or page of Milton keen for the excitement and re-now it is only bluff and noise.
lands discovered before them and He was always... above, tak
bribes and perquisites, and alw, While a sale was in progress at as much as they can really take freshment of the untried. The Thanking you for your Indness maintained even in poverty a rese- the Chosen Company, Foc Tak, a in in a day; and there are read- difference between the two may to publish these remarks and enclo fute independance. He was deter-coolie, went into the store and stole ers who go to sleep so many depend upon a wider difference sing my card.
mined to be what he talked so much a sweater valued at $2:50, 3. He was about superior, man, string, arrested yesterday by a district » evenings, or sunny noons, over beween two views about the good
For thirty years he was a suce watchman, and sentenced to six cessful teacher, with a large and re- weeks hard Labour to-day. verent band of studenta. In 500
the same page of Motley's to be got from a holiday
To
“EYE-VESTNESS.”
"Dutch Republic" that the book some, rest is repose; to others, It Wong Yee-ho, employed as a cook Jasts them for years. Equally, is new effort and new experience, at there are readers who think Sir Towards both reading can con- Que
Arthur Eddington a shallow tri- tribute
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life saw him)